Sentences with phrase «ordinary citizens like»

Opened the door for ordinary citizens like Ms Li Yaquing to start «free» schools or independent schools, when he was a director of Taipen Prefectural Education Department.

Such personal reflections are woven throughout «Newtown,» including interviews with ordinary citizens like Father Bob Weiss, who buried eight children following the tragedy, and Rick Thorne, the school's custodian, who has been hailed by some as a hero for making three calls to 911 and keeping police on the phone for 10 minutes while confronting the shooter.

Ordinary citizens like ourselves do not know enough about future technological innovation to vote today with ballots or with dollars in the market.

Not exact matches

«She is a free woman, like any ordinary citizen,» said Abdul Hameed Rana, one of Rimsha's lawyers.

A Western Orientalist did not live like an ordinary citizen in the Orient.

What I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary people.

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

We may not have powerful donors like the Koch Brothers or Rupert Murdoch backing us, but we have thousands upon thousands of ordinary citizens and workers and students.

This is why they love «gun free zones» like New York City, where ordinary citizens cant carry, just the rich, famous, and politically connected.

The speaker shot back at critics who said she was unhappy being treated like an ordinary citizen.

Despite being featured on the gatefold cover of Vanity Fair's 2017 Hollywood Issue in a sparkly, thigh - baring gown, flanked by Dakota Johnson and Janelle Monáe, Gerwig is pleasantly unpretentious; just an ordinary citizen — like many of her roles — meeting someone for lunch at the restaurant around the corner from her house that serves her favorite fried artichokes.

As was true for teachers, the other employees who live but don't work in the district tend to look pretty much like ordinary citizens in their turnout rates.

If Twitter UK can be embarrassed into acting quickly, recently ridding itself (this week in fact) of cyber bullies and other assorted trolls by the British news media, backed by the government, plus have them arrested and publically exposed to the nation, then why hasn't the head office of Amazon in the United States been forced to take the same action when it comes to attacks by trolls on Indie writers who are ordinary law abiding citizens like you and I?

«The heroes of this story are people like lawyer Joel Kupferman and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol... each refused to be lulled by the failures of most of the New York media to report what was actually happening; each helped to pierce the false claims of government officials and to validate the concerns of rescue workers and ordinary citizens, to confirm to them that they were not imagining their ailments.»

Although I am no more than an ordinary citizen, my email address book reads like a «Who's Who» list of skeptic scientists and speakers.

The intrusion of misleading information into the lives of ordinary citizens is worldwide, and is transmitted by once prestigious news organizations, like BBC.

Regarding my own presentation two days ago, my opening point was to inspire the audience to ask tough questions like I do, even if they have no science expertise, and I was going to follow that with a brief mention of how ordinary citizens know what contradictory climate science assessments look like and how their growing knowledge about those increasingly undermines the stability of the idea of man - caused global warming.

Deeply isolated in their own tiny academic bubble only talking to like minded individuals also inside of that bubble where the real word rarely intrudes, I doubt that very many of these scientists realise just how stupid and even imbecilic and disposable they are starting to appear to the ordinary citizen on the street particularly when they try to sell a bill of goods like those adjusted and etc and etc temperatures from a half dozen or more decades past as the real temperatures of the times and then change those same temperatures or remove then the next day or week or whatever and then change then yet again and again.

The President indicated that his nominee will be «someone who, like Justice Stevens, knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.»

-- The right of a citizen to travel and transport property and to use the ordinary and usual conveyances of the day may, under the police power, be regulated by the city in the interest of public safety and welfare; but the city may not arbitrarily or unreasonably prohibit or restrict it, nor may it permit one to exercise it and refuse to permit another of like qualifications, under like conditions and circumstances, to exercise it.